Born 3 July 1883 in Prague. Died 3 June 1924 in Kierling. Kafka is buried in the Prague-Straschnitz Jewish Cemetery (which is not the same as Prague's Old Jewish Cemetery, stary zdivsky hrbitov, in the city center).

The Kafka bibliography reveals an immense corpus of work. Three published novels. Hundreds of letters to friends, family, and lovers. Kafka wrote thirteen quarto notebooks (posthumously published as his Diaries) and eight more octavo notebooks. He also wrote numerous short stories, parables, fragments, drafts, sketches, one piece of dramatic fiction.